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Explore the evidence, mystery photos, OLogist interviews, and more. Read all about it!

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Travel around the world with museum scientists: from Madagascar to Indonesia.
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Character illustration of planet Mars, shivering in space.

Find out what we know about Mars in this online tour of Earth's closest neighbor.
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Explore an amazing city carved into the sandstone cliffs.
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cartoon of whale tail breaking through water

The largest mammal at the Museum is interviewed by the largest dinosaur
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Investigate the how and why of cloning. 
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Paleontologist Mark Norell answers kids’ questions.
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Museum scientists answer kids' questions!
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Explore amazing facts about some of the 200 breeds of horses living today.
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Explore how Eleanor is protecting the world's animals and plants.
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Ed Mathez on a rocky ledge with water behind

Find out how he became a geologist and what you can learn from studying rocks.
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Find out where Rob has followed his born curiosity.
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What is it like to hunt for dinosaur fossils? And what discoveries are made back in the lab?
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Find out from a zooarchaeologist how humans have tamed and bred horses.
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Meet a scientist who studies Korean culture.
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Discover the intriguing facts and artifacts that Chuck has unearthed.
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Discover where starry-eyed Neil has followed his curiosity.
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What kind of person becomes an ichthyologist, a scientist who studies fish?
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Meet some of the more unusual members of T. rex and Velociraptor's family tree.
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Did you know that biodiversity provides us with things that we need?
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Follow Carly's comic book adventures in Wasp Land.
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Join scientist George Amato on his quest to stop criminals smuggling illegal goods.
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Your address in space is a whole lot longer than your mailing address here on Earth.
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Earthquakes are happening all the time. Find out what makes the earth shake.
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Take a quick look at where Einstein's curiosity took him—and the world.
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Join the inquisitive Deena Soris as she interviews the fossil of a Protoceratops. 
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About 80 million years ago two dinosaurs were locked in deadly combat when they were suddenly buried alive. See one of the greatest fossil specimens ever found.
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How far have your groceries traveled? Find out!
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Take a peek inside two paleontologists' scrapbook.
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Why are many animal and plant species dying out forever?
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Find out how the Big Bang Theory came to be.
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How can the influenza virus travel around the world? Find out in this quizzy story!
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How do simple storms turn into swirling hurricanes?
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Meet six rocks that travelled to the Museum from places like Mexico, Scotland, and even outer space.
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What faraway places might humans travel to someday, and how will we get there?
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Smog in Normandy

Find out about Earth's climate, its consequences, and what we can do.
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See how genetics is used to solve crimes!
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Take a look at some unusual living and extinct mammals.
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Check out these fascinating fish from Africa's lower Congo River.
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Find out what's so fascinating about these beautiful, pink birds.
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A paleontologist travels to Antarctica to collect fossil evidence.
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In the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are hundreds of billions of stars. But that hasn't always been the case...
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The ocean's one diverse place. Take the surfboard challenge, and ride the waves of biodiversity!
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Take a peek into a mineralogist's scrapbook to see why he thinks jade is so special.
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Take a virtual stroll through a city park for a close-up look at some hidden inhabitants.
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Where did Einstein get his great ideas? Find out with this virtual tour.
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Visit a scientist's lab to see how he creates a magma chamber!
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Do you dig the Earth? If so, you'll want to meet Ed.
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Dive into the oceans with Melanie.
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Find out why a ball thrown in the air will return to the ground. 
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Explore how mammals run, fly, swim, walk, hop, and swing!
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Einstein believed that messing up was a part of being successful-an idea that, itself, has proven relevance.
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Find out what makes the Sun glow, and other amazing facts, in an up-close interview with the Sun.
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What you see and what you think you see are different things. Find out what your brain doing behind-the-scenes!
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Dig your way through this list of ten titles.
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Take a virtual tour of our solar system to explore its many mysteries.
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Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes... Examine how plate tectonics affect our world.
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Watch two stories from ancient Greece that are animated as if they are vase paintings come to life.
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Check out the scrapbook to learn about this amazing race!
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Take a world-wide tour of biodiversity with three scientists.
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What's the human genome project and what does it mean to you? 
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Do you know the difference between weather and climate?
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Play music that you may have heard along the Silk Road.
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How do you describe your place in the 4th dimension?
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In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!
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Have you ever wondered why and how fireflies flash?
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Mundo Shamundo! Can you help Mandy study for her geology test?
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Two thousand years ago, an ancient city called Petra thrived deep in the desert of Nabataean kingdom.
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Find out about Taiwan's fascinating fluttering insects.
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Almost all of the atoms in your body were once inside stars that exploded billions of years ago. Learn more mind-boggling facts.
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Tour this spinning pinwheel in space that we call home.
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Find out how scientists are using genetics to change the food you eat.
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Discover how these deep sea creatures create their own light!
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With its swirling column of wind, a tornado is one of nature’s most destructive storms.
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Take your imagination on a wonderful, mind-bending trip with these "thought experiments"!
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Explore this family tree of living things on Earth.
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Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain!
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It's not easy being an artifact! Find out why in this urn-est interview.
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Find out what causes volcanoes to erupt and how scientists study them.
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It's the differences in this world that make all the difference!
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various sea creatures among coral.

How is the ocean like a layer cake? What creatures live there? And how important is the ocean? Take a dive and find out!
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Take a closer look at how the atmosphere keeps our planet warm.
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What does it mean to be human?
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See how artifacts and ruins give us glimpses of what life was like long ago.
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Astronomy is a BIG subject. We've brought learning about it down to size with these big ideas.
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Find out more about global warming. How, and why, we should slow it?
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Take a peek at our planet's layers, learn what secrets rocks reveal, and gain a long view of history.
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Take a look at the science of where it ALL begins.
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Learn about fossils, extremely rare—and valuable—records of the past. 
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Water is a precious resource, and all things need water to survive.
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Is this animal a tadpole, frog, salamander, or lizard? Take a guess!
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What animal bones did early humans used to build huts? Take a guess!
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Explore some surprising ways that organisms get the food that they need.
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What animal did scientists collect this tissue from? Take a guess!
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What golden award is this? Take a guess!
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Is this a leech's stomach, back sucker, jaws, or eyes? Take a guess!
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Discover how species have evolved to survive in some of the most extreme environments on Earth.
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What animal does this long, spiraled tooth belong to? Take a guess!
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Explore some of the inventive ways that help living things reproduce and their offspring survive.
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Take a look at some of the extraordinary ways that animals experience the world around them.
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Discover some of the amazing ways that organisms have evolved to keep from being eaten.
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Is this animal a rodent, a primate, or a raccoon's relative? Take a guess!
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Wasps can live in hives of thousands, but did you know that most wasps are solitary? Get the facts. 
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Grab the magical magnifying glass and take a close look at what's living in the mangroves.
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